Bale fastening means



Oct. 31, 1933. R 5 PULLEN 1,933,510

BALE FASTENI NG MEANS Filed Oct. 19, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 31, 1933.

R. S. PULLEN BALE FASTENING MEAN S Filed 001;. 19, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 patented Got. 31, 1933 I I r 1,933,510 BALE FASTENING MEANS Rodney S., Pollen, Akron, Ohio, assignor t- Pullenlite Company, Philadelphia, Pa a corporation of Pennsylvania 1 Application October 19, 1931. Serial No. 569,632

8 Claims. (01. 206-29) I My invention relates to match packets in which thematches are ignited during their longitudinal withdrawal, stick-end foremost, .from the packet, the matches in the packet "threading spaced rows of perforations of a wrap and "the invention is more particularly directed toimeans for fastening the wrap to the folded position that it occupies in the finished packet. I

In this type of match packet a short flap adja- 10 cent one row of perforations folds down against the exposed match portions intermediate the threaded rows and a long flap adjacent the other row of perforations folds down over the short flap then around the projecting match heads and, up against the portion of the wrap intermediaten the two rows of perforations andjthe wrap -fastened in folded position, the present inventionbeing directed to novel, fastening meansfor holding the wrap in its final foldedposition.

One purpose of the present invention is to provide a, packet: of the type, indicated ,with' a novel structure that willbe at once adapted to easy andinexpensive manufacture and Well suited to the needs of service.

I A further purpose is tooutwardly 'fcldthe tines of a staple thatextends transversely of afpacket of the character indicated, the transverse staple desirably including between its tines before these are clutched or foldedoutwardly, the-wrap portions directly adjacent opposite sides of the matches and also; anlouter portion of the long flap.

A further purpose is to provide adesirable form of staple for a bale and that avoids any waste of bale material.

5 1 i 1 A further purpose is to make the pointed ends or tines of a'bale relatively supplementary with;

respect to the strip from which the bale blanks are cut, sothat each cut from a continuous strip 40 of bale material produces at the out supplemenQ tary pointed ends, one on the severed bale blank and the other on the continuous strip to form one end of. the next succeeding bale.

Further purposes will appear in the specification and inthe claims.

I have elected to show one main form only of, modifications my invention, with a few minor I thereof.

Figures 1, 2 and 3 are respectively front,'left side and rear elevations ofa match packet embodying a desirable form of the present invention. v

Figures-1a and 2a are views corresponding respectivelyto Figures 1 and 2, showing a somewhat different form, Figurel being fragmentary.

- tory to bending 'thebale into a staple, a portion of the continuous strip from which the bale blanks are out being shown in dot-and-dash lines in Figures 6 and 7. Figure. 9 is a perspective view of a staple such as may bemade except as to the tines from any; of the bales of Figures 6, 'land 8, the staple of Figure 9 however including the tines of Figure 6 intendedas a conventional showingfor-any suitable tines. r v I Figures 10, 1'1, l2and 13'are sectional side elevations illustrating a packet in process of manufactureat progressively different stages thereof. 7 Figure 14 is. a section taken upon the line 1 l 14' of Figure 12. c g

Figure 15 is a section taken upon the line l5 l5 of Figure 13.

except that the tines of the staple, not clinched] in Figure 15, are partially clinched in Figure 16,

andare completely clinched in; Figure 4, the outward clinching being an important feature of the present invention. 1 I I,

Like numerals refer to like parts in all figures. Describing inillustration and not in limitation and referring to the drawings: A typical wrap blank fora match packet of the type to' which the present invention is dirooted is intended to'be illustratedin Figure 5 which presents the inside face ofthe blank or card toward the beholder. Each card is assentbled with matches and a metal fastener to form a finished match packet, the present invention being directed chiefly to details of the fastener,

The outside, or in Figure 5 the under face of l the card, is scored at the dot and-dash lines 10, l, 12, l3, l4 and 15, and strip portions 16 and l? of the inside or upwardly presented face in Figure 5, are coated with ignition material. i

The card is also provided with atransverse row Y of petticoated holes 18 between the score lines 14 the holes 19 and preferably toward the strip of n tio material .16, this weaken n be ng su matches ably accomplished by providing short slits or score lines 20 from the individual holes into the strip of ignition material 16.

The petticoats of successive petticoated holes 18 are preferably relatively staggered in order to increase the distance between the radial cuts of one hole and the corresponding cuts of the adjacent holes and to thereby avoid weakening the card unduly along the row of petticoated holes.

The present invention is directed more particularly to the fastening of the wrap in the position that it occupies in the finished packet, this fastening being accomplished by a bale 21, Figure 4, that is formed into a staple which in the finished packet extends across the packet under the first fold of the long flap and embraces in the grip of its tines the remaining three thicknesses of the folded wrap.

These bales are normally manufactured from a continuous strip of bale material, which delivers from a roll of the bale material, each bale being cut from the strip at one stage of the packet assembly, formed into a staple and inserted before and crimped or clinched after the folding down and around of the long flap.

In the assembly of the packet the long fiap 22 and the short flap 23are folded up along the scored lines 13 and 14 respectively and the 24 are inserted stick-end forward through the petticoated holes 18 and then the round holes 19, the partially completed packet being now approximately as indicated in Figure The short flap 23 is then folded down upon the matches upon the portions thereof intermediate theperforations l8 and 19 of the wrap, as indicated in Figure 11, which. represents the partially assembled packet in the stage at which it is ready to receive the bale fastener.

The bale has by this time been cut from a continuous strip of bale material and bent into a staple, with a shape about as indicated in Figure 9, the body portion between the tines curving forwardly at the middle in the direction of the staple insertion. I

The staple, preferably inserted by suitable mechanism, is inserted across the downwardly folded short fiap 23 near or at the opposing strips 1'7 and 16 ofignition material, being at the inner edges of these strips in Figures 12 and 14 which show the partially assembled packet at this stage of manufacture the staple 21 having been inserted but not crimped or clinched.

The long flap may suitably be provided with perforations 25 and 26, Figures 5 and 14, to register with and pass the tines 2"? of the staple,

although these perforations are optional.

From the stage illustrated in Figures 12 and 14 the long flap 22 is folded down first about the score line 12 and then successively about the score lines 11 and 10 around the match heads and up against the portion 28 of the wrap intermediate the score lines 13 and 14, to the position of Figures 13 and 15, with the perforations 25 and 26 receiving the downwardly projecting tines 27 of the staple.

After reaching the stage of Figures 13 and 15 the projecting tines 27 are crimped or clinched outwardly.

In the prior art crimping or clinching of the tine ends of a transverse bale of a match. packet of the character indicated has been inwardly and an outward crimping of the tines as compared to the inward crimping of the prior art forms an important feature of the present invention, re-

sulting in a more easy assembly of the packet and a better packet, the inward crimping of the prior art having resulted in an uncertainty of ignition when withdrawing the matches adjacent the tines.

The tines 27 are turned outwardly and then inwardly outside the first fold 29 of the long flap to the position shown in Figures 1, 2 and 4 or optionally under the first fold of the long flap to the position shown in Figures 1a and 2a.

The form shown for Figures 1 and 2 is usually preferable to that shown in Figures 1a and 2a in that the inclusion of the first fold 29 within the crimp of the tines desirably increases the tension of this fold, making a tighter packet and thereby avoiding any danger of coins or the like inadvertently lodging in the space beneath the first fold 29 of the long flap, which has sometimes happened in the packets of the form. of Figures la to avoid any waste of bale material incident to the cutting of successive bale blanks'irom a continuous strip of bale material, and thereby to completely convert the material of the continuous strip into staples, and I show in Figures 6 and 7 two only of the different ways in whichthe ends of the staple may be formed so that each cut fromzthecontinuous strip may be the same as each other cut and leave pointed ends respectively on the severed blank and on the continuous strip for the tines of opposite ends of successive staples.

In Figure 6 the bale blanks 30 are cut diagonally from the continuous strip 31, as at 32 which leaves adjacent and supplemental pointed ends 33 and 34 respectively on the severed'staple blank 30 and on the continuous strip 31 that are well suited to be tine ends of the finished staple.

The pointed end 34 of the stripwill make one tine of the next staple just as the tine end 34 of the severed blank was made in the cuttingaway of the preceding blank.

While I prefer to make the diagonal cuts that sever the staple blanks from the continuous strip extend diagonally across the strip in a single straight out as in Figure 6, making the point of the tine on one edge of the strip I may makethe l iiii its use

cut double, as indicatedat 85, Figure 7 which gives supplemental double pointed and single pointed ends 33a and 34a respectively, one of which forms one tine end of the severed blank and the other a tine end of the next blank.'

In the form of Figure 4 and also in that of Figure 6 the successive cuts severing the successive bales from a continuous strip are all alike and there is no waste whatever of baling material but the tines of the individualstaples are not alike, each being a supplement of the other, considered with respect to the width of thestrip material from which the blanks are successively out.

In the form of Figure 8 the bale ends are pointed as at 33b and 3% toward themiddle of at both tines, for example as indicated at 34 of Figure 7, it will be usually preferable toohave the wrap perforated as indicated at and 26 of Figures 5 and'l4. In either of foration is optional.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim the other forms this peror particular need will doubtlessbecome evident to others skilled in the. art, to obtain all or part of the benefits of my invention withoutjcopying the structure shown, and I,:therefore, claim all such in so far as they fall within rthe reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.,- I

Having thus described my invention, what I;

claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patehtisr- 1. Ina match packet of the'character indicated, a row of laterallyspaced matches, a wrap jfolded'longitudinally of 'andthreaded' by the flap' and inside the first fold of t I having tines outside the matches extending,-

matches and a bale transversely of the matches holding the wrap in its folded position and having tines outside the end matches of the row,

penetrating a plurality of thefolds of the wrap and clinched outwardly. v

2. In a'match packet of the character indicated, a row of laterally spaced matches, a wrap folded longitudinally of and threaded by the matches and a bale transversely of the matches holding the wrap in its folded position and having tines outside the end matchesofthe row, penetrating a plurality of the folds of; the wrap and clinched outwardly and having a body in termediate the tines curving the packet along. the body across the matches from the sides of the packet toward the m'iddle'thereof in'the direction A of tine insertion.

3. In a match packet of the character indicated, a row of laterally spacedmatches, a wrap;

having longitudinally spaced portions threaded by the matches, a short flap from adjacent the matches at the projecting match heads folded down upon the stick portions of the matches intermediate the said spaced threaded portions and a long flap from adjacent the-matches at the projecting sticks thereof folded down upon" the short flap thence'around the match heads and up against the wrap intermediate the match threaded portions to form a back for the packet and a bale extending outside the folded short flap transversely of thematches and having" tines outside the endmatches of the row ex-' tending through three thicknesses of the, folded v wrap and then clinched outwardly away from the enclosed matches.

' 4.,In 9. match packet of the character indicated, a row of laterally spaced matches, a wrap, having longitudinally spaced portions threaded by the matches, a short flap from adjacent the projecting match heads'folded'down upon the -matches intermediate the said spaced threaded,

portions and a long flap from adjacent the pro-' jectingmatch sticks folded down upon the short" flap thence around the match heads and up against the wrap portion threaded by the matches to form a back for the 'packetfandabale extending across the matches outside the folded short the long flap and through three thicknesses of the folded wrap and then clinched on the back of the packet outwardly away from the enclosed matches.

5. In a match packet of the characterindi cated, a row of laterally spaced matches, a wrap having longitudinally spaced portions threaded;

"matches and a bale extending across the matches cated, a row of laterally spaced verse to the fold of the a long cated, a row jecting match sticks down I 3'. by the matches, a short flap inwardly adjacent the matches at the head ends thereof and folded down upon the matches intermediate the said spaced portions and a long flap folded in adi-V rection reverse to the fold of the short flap from 80 inwardly adjacentthe projecting match sticks down upon the short flap thence around thematch' heads and up against an intermediate wrap portion threaded at opposite ends-by the outsidethe' folded short flap and havingtines outside the. matches extending through the three thicknesses of folded wrap, clinched outwardly from the back of the packet and crimped around the edges of the four folds of the wrap; 6; In a match packet of the'character indimatches, a wrap havinglongitudinally spaced portions threaded by-thejmatches, a short flap from inwardly adjacent the match heads and folded downyupon the matches intermediate the said spaced portionsand a long flap folded in a direction reshort flap from inwardly adjacent the projecting and up against an" intermediate wrap portion threaded at opposite ends by the matches and a bale extending across the matches outside the thematches intermediate the said spaced portions and a long'flap foldedin a direction reverse,

' to the fold of the short flap from inwardly adjacent theprojecting match sticks downupon the short flap thence around thematch heads'andup against an'intermediatewrap portion threaded at opposite ends by the matches and a bale extending across the matches outside the folded. short flap and inside thefirst fold of the long flap .and having tinesoutside the matches extending through the three thicknesses-of folded wrap, clinched outwardly from the back of the packet around the edges of the said three thick- "nesses and in under. the first fold of the long" cated, a rowof laterallyspacedmatches, a wrap a having longitudinally spaced portionsthreaded by V.

the matches, a short flap from inwardly adjacent the match heads folded downjupon thematches intermediate the said spaced portions and a long flap folded in a direction reverse' tofthe fold of the short flap from inwardly adjacent the proupon the shortflap thence around the match'headsand up against an intermediate wrap portion threaded at oppo-' site ends by the matches and a bale extending across the matches outside thefolded short flap v,

and having tines outside the matches extending through the three thicknessespof' folded'wrap and clinched outwardly from the back of the packetaround the edges of the said three thicknesses, to end adjacent the body of the bale.

RODNEY s. PULLEN.

match sticks down upon v Y the short flap thence around the match headslOO flap and having tines outside the matches 105 t 8."In a' match packet ofv the character indi-l130 

